From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 6:51:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C0437B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BDD43E42 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:51:28 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17mx05-0004uC-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 14:48:49 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:48:49 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Den Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP vs sendmail In-Reply-To: <200209051659.18512.info@volginfo.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Den wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 16:40, Jan Grant wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Den wrote: > > > every time I send mail, sendmail print error messages: > > > Sep 5 15:40:05 img sendmail[17883]: My unqualified host name (img) > > > unknown; sleeping for retry > > > Sep 5 15:41:05 img sendmail[17883]: unable to qualify my own domain name > > > (img) -- using short name > > > > > > my host (named img) is in local network, and return path is "sg > > > ", if I send mail using sendmail. > > > > > > Is it possible to disable this error messages and customise return path > > > (and maybe some other parameters) for all mail I send? > > > > If that's the problem, you should be able to fix it by adding an entry > > for your unqualified hostname to /etc/hosts. > already added > but problem still alive > and wrong return path is much more difficult problem! > i can't recive answer to my send-pr message.... You need to check the options to masquerade your domain. At least, that's what sendmail calls it, but you'll have to sort out the rest yourself, I'm afraid. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ New Freedom of Information Act: theirs, to yours. Happy now? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message